Jim Hendry fired. what are your thoughts?

A new GM is a start, but the Cubs need an organizational overhaul. Their ability to identify talent is among the worst in MLB, and any fix the Cubs make needs to include their scouting and farm systems. Bring in all the free agents you want, it's going to make the same miserable Cubs team. Hopefully their new GM will understand that and understand the patience of the Cubs fanbase. Build from the farm system on up, then spend some of that cash on free agents to shore up your young nucleas of talent.

It's a business model that worked for the Phillies, Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Rangers and Giants.

The fact that fans will come whether the Cubs win or lose being a negative thing is ridiculous. The Cubs have one of the highest payrolls in baseball. If they truly were making no effort to win, why on earth would they spend so much money. Fans of other teams insisting that Cubs fans should not support their team through bad seasons is the very definition of being bandwagon fans. Other teams can only dream of the support the Cubs fans give them. When (if) the Cubs do turn things around, the Cubs will own Chicago like no other team has.

This gives us some hope. It gives us hope that Quade will be next. It gives us hope that Tom Ricketts is only 1/2 as stupid as he comes off.

This should have been done a while ago, but I'm happy. I honestly thought Quade and Hendry would keep their jobs for next year based on the Cubs playing somewhat decent the last 3 weeks. But why stop now? This is just the beginning. Quade needs to go next along with Crain "the brain" Kenney. Kenney is a dope and has no business running a baseball team. The organization needs to be cleaned out, top to bottom.

Maybe we'll get a GM that believes in OBP. Hendry has screwed the Cubs up for a long time. He's turned us into the most embarrassing team in MLB.

I'm ready for a real GM to run this team.

Well, this was something that was long overdue, and there is really no reason to believe that things won't improve.

I know last year when the Mets fired Minaya, I was elated, and I can think that Cubs fans feel great about this, now let the new GM clean out the rest of the house and bring in some people who know how to win.

Maybe we could have a Mets vs. Cubs NLCS in 2015, that would be great for baseball.

A new GM can't do any worse than Jim Hendry. The Cubs have a lot of money and he just gave it away to so many players with stupid contracts. They now have a little more hope.

Lou, who i certainly knew on a similar time as he executed for KC contained interior the previous due 80s, is a surprising baseball guy. somebody as quickly as stated that each and every baseball supervisor is employed to be fired. (i'm no longer particular this utilized to Walter Alston.) yet, till now you hearth him determine out who you are going to hire and what you opt for them to end that Lou hasn't. in different words what have been strategic strikes that Lou made contained interior the previous season that fee the Cubs the pennant. do no longer blame workers judgements on him. he's no longer the GM. do no longer carry him to blame for injuries. Then, as an proprietor or GM who drops the ax on him, take finished accountability or blame for a fashion the Cubs do next 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. If i exchange into an proprietor i might tell the GM, on a similar time as he axed the container supervisor, now your head is on the block. If the nice and cozy guy would not workout habitual, you're fired. So hire the guy which you opt for to connect your wagon to.

Long overdue the cubs we're going nowhere around jim hendry the new GM whoever he or she better get the right stuff that's what they need.

Cubs fans have GOT to be rejoicing, just for the sliver of hope it provides, let alone how much better the team's future might be.

The new GM (Randy Bush is the interim, but I doubt he gets the full-time job) has a major roster overhaul to undertake.

Helllllllll Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Better late than never!

But the Cubs need a complete overhaul. Get rid of Quade and all the terrible contracts, and bring in guys who can run a baseball team *cough* Ryne Sandberg *cough*

They should have made him take his mistakes -- Soriano, Zambrano and Pena -- with him. What the Cubs need is a GM who can evaluate talent and negotiate a contract without emptying the bank vault. I know that they're out there because the Cubs are one of the few teams loaded with overpaid/underachieving veterans.

I wonder what this means the team will pass on Pujols now.